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National Ä m
Conference
Chicago, Illinois October U -14, 1974
sponsored by
Vietnam Veterans Against the War-Winter Soldier Organization
827 W. Newport Chicago 60657 (312) 935-2129
The National Steering Committee of VVAW/WSO at its national meeting in
April, 1974, voted to call a national conference of all groups doing active work
among GIs. The conference will be held in Chicago on the weekend of October
llth - 14th (Friday evening through Monday afternoon) at the YMCA Hotel,
826 South Wabash Avenue. We hope by calling this conference that the GI
Movement can develop more unity and begin building a strategy that will seriously challenge the role of the US military under imperialism.
We have four goals for the conference: 1) Evaluating the past 10 years of
GI work; 2) evaluating the current strategy of the military; 3) developing unity
within the GI movement; 4) developing a strategy for the future that all GI
organizers can relate to. This final goal, developing a strategy, we see as
the most important, and we hope that through the discussion in the workshops
we can arrive at a good program.
In our work among GIs, we have found a great divergence in the politics, style
and focus of work among GI organizers, as well as a general feeling of isolation.
This divergence and isolation seems to be the greatest drawback to developing
a powerful GI movement. Many of us have found it easy to assign the cause of
the problem of a weak GI movement to the objective conditions in the military,
the decline of US troop involvement in Indochina and the end of the draft. We
feel, however, that the real cause of the current low ebb in the GI movement
is the lack of unity.
VVAW/WSO considers itself an active and serious part of the effort to build the
GI movement, and we hope that by calling this conference we will contribute to
developing the necessary unity and direction for building a strong, anti-imperialist GI movement.
TENTATIVE AGENDA
FRIDAY - 7 PM 1) Selecting Chairperson(s)
2) Discussion of the agenda and workshops

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National Ä m
Conference
Chicago, Illinois October U -14, 1974
sponsored by
Vietnam Veterans Against the War-Winter Soldier Organization
827 W. Newport Chicago 60657 (312) 935-2129
The National Steering Committee of VVAW/WSO at its national meeting in
April, 1974, voted to call a national conference of all groups doing active work
among GIs. The conference will be held in Chicago on the weekend of October
llth - 14th (Friday evening through Monday afternoon) at the YMCA Hotel,
826 South Wabash Avenue. We hope by calling this conference that the GI
Movement can develop more unity and begin building a strategy that will seriously challenge the role of the US military under imperialism.
We have four goals for the conference: 1) Evaluating the past 10 years of
GI work; 2) evaluating the current strategy of the military; 3) developing unity
within the GI movement; 4) developing a strategy for the future that all GI
organizers can relate to. This final goal, developing a strategy, we see as
the most important, and we hope that through the discussion in the workshops
we can arrive at a good program.
In our work among GIs, we have found a great divergence in the politics, style
and focus of work among GI organizers, as well as a general feeling of isolation.
This divergence and isolation seems to be the greatest drawback to developing
a powerful GI movement. Many of us have found it easy to assign the cause of
the problem of a weak GI movement to the objective conditions in the military,
the decline of US troop involvement in Indochina and the end of the draft. We
feel, however, that the real cause of the current low ebb in the GI movement
is the lack of unity.
VVAW/WSO considers itself an active and serious part of the effort to build the
GI movement, and we hope that by calling this conference we will contribute to
developing the necessary unity and direction for building a strong, anti-imperialist GI movement.
TENTATIVE AGENDA
FRIDAY - 7 PM 1) Selecting Chairperson(s)
2) Discussion of the agenda and workshops